Posted by Simon Perry on 17 October 2007 | Tagged as: Distribution, UK, BBC, Digital TV
Official timings of the Switch Over last night for the Whitehaven relay.
02:00 - BBC2 switched off after the snooker had finished.
02:10 - ITV switched off
02:17 - ITV back on previous BBC2 channel
02:37 - First digital Mux came up delivering five channels on the old BBC2 analogue frequency.
Each of the other two relays Eskdale Green and […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 17 October 2007 | Tagged as: Distribution, UK, BBC, Digital TV
We’ve dragged ourself out of bed to have a quick check that the Whitehaven Switch Over was a success.
You’ll be aware of the considerable build up to this pivotal event for UK TV.
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Posted by Simon Perry on 16 October 2007 | Tagged as: Distribution, UK, Digital TV
Tonight at 2am THIS SWITCH is going to be turned off, ending the BBC 2 transmission and marking the start of the UK turning off it’s analogue TV service.
As you can see, the jolly wag engineers have wished it a fond goodbye, by draping bunting over it and the BBC analogue rack that is being […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 16 October 2007 | Tagged as: UK, Digital TV
The services of the local Town Crier were brought in today to ring out the message that Analogue is ending in Whitehaven today and Digital TV is coming.
Standing in the beautiful grounds of St Nicholas church, dressed in his fine robes, he regaled us and those standing around with a fine demonstration.
Just a bit of […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 16 October 2007 | Tagged as: UK, Digital TV
The Jericho Primary School in Whitehaven today held a ‘Goodbye analogue’ assembly on the eve of tomorrow’s digital switchover, where analogue TV transmissions will be turned off for the first time in the UK.
The headteacher and staff couldn’t have been more helpful, as members of the press from around the world converged on the school […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 16 October 2007 | Tagged as: Distribution, UK, BBC, Digital TV
I suspect that you’re not going to be surprised to hear that the local paper for Whitehaven is called the Whitehaven News.
It may surprise you that they’ve has been knocking out news stories since 1852 - making it all the more incredible that it’s now at the leading the charge for digital Switchover in this […]
Posted by Mike Slocombe on 16 October 2007 | Tagged as: TV related, Microsoft, BBC
Aunty Beeb responds to critics and finaly serves up a multi-platform iPlayer app.
Posted by Simon Perry on 16 October 2007 | Tagged as: Distribution, UK, Digital TV
I was knocking around Whitehaven yesterday afternoon after a journey that started for me on Sunday evening when I left the Isle of Wight.
As I’ve come nearly the full length of the country to cover something that could, if we were a less caring publication, be done from behind a desk with a hot drink […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 15 October 2007 | Tagged as: TV related, Distribution, UK, Digital TV
We’re dragging our sorry bones up to Whitehaven, Cumbria to join the media bandwagon to witness the first UK town to have their analogue TV signal to be turned off.
We’ve covered the build up to this pretty extensively, as it’s a major change to the way that television is received by ‘normal’ punters - yes […]
Posted by Simon Perry on 13 September 2007 | Tagged as: Platforms, TV related, UK, Digital TV, Displays
Digital UK estimates that over one million TV sets will be sold in the UK this Christmas.
Electronic retailers and TV manufacturers will be licking their lips at the prospect.
Xmas is traditionally a time when lots of people buy a new TV - whether it’s because they want to make sure that they get at least […]
